Events

Pre-1600

• 1058 Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border territory of Burgenland.

• 1066 At the Battle of Fulford, Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin.

• 1187 Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.

• 1260 The Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights.

• 1378 Cardinal Robert of Geneva is elected as Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.

• 1498 The Nankai tsunami washes away the building housing the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in; it has been located outside ever since.

• 1519 Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his expedition which ultimately culminates in the first circumnavigation of the globe.

• 1586 A number of conspirators in the Babington Plot are hanged, drawn and quartered.

1601–1900

• 1602 The Spanish-held Dutch town of Grave capitulates to a besieging Dutch and English army under the command of Maurice of Orange.

• 1697 The Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, ending the Nine Years' War.

• 1737 The Walking Purchase concludes, which forces the cession of of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.

• 1792 French troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy.

• 1835 The decade-long Ragamuffin War starts when rebels capture Porto Alegre in Brazil.

• 1848 The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.

• 1854 Crimean War: British and French troops defeat Russians at the Battle of Alma.

• 1857 The Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.

• 1860 The future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom begins the first visit to North America by a Prince of Wales.

• 1863 American Civil War: The Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, ends in a Confederate victory.

• 1870 The Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia, and complete the unification of Italy.

• 1871 Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.

• 1881 U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in upon the death of James A. Garfield the previous day.

• 1893 Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.

1901–present

• 1911 The White Star Line's collides with the British warship .

• 1920 Irish War of Independence: British police known as "Black and Tans" burn the town of Balbriggan and kill two local men in revenge for an IRA assassination.

• 1941 The Holocaust in Lithuania: Lithuanian Nazis and local police begin a mass execution of 403 Jews in Nemenčinė.

• 1946 The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed for seven years due to World War II.

• 1946 Six days after a referendum, King Christian X of Denmark annuls the declaration of independence of the Faroe Islands.

• 1954 The Moomin comics, created by Tove Jansson and Lars Jansson, is published internationally in the London newspaper The Evening News.

• 1955 The Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR is signed.

• 1961 Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.

• 1962 James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.

• 1965 Following the Battle of Burki, the Indian Army captures Dograi in during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.

• 1967 The Cunard Liner Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched in Clydebank, Scotland.

• 1971 Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.

• 1973 Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.

• 1973 Singer Jim Croce, songwriter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others die when their light aircraft crashes shortly after takeoff from Natchitoches Regional Airport in Louisiana.

• 1977 Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations.

• 1979 A French-supported coup d'état in the Central African Empire overthrows Emperor Bokassa I.

• 1982 NFL season: American football players in the National Football League begin a 57-day strike.

• 1984 A suicide bomber in a car attacks the U.S. embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing twenty-two people.

• 1989 USAir Flight 5050 crashes into Bowery Bay during a rejected takeoff from LaGuardia Airport, killing two people.

• 1990 South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia.

• 2000 The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.

• 2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror".

• 2003 Civil unrest in the Maldives breaks out after a prisoner is killed by guards.

• 2007 Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters march on Jena, Louisiana, United States, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.

• 2008 A dump truck full of explosives detonates in front of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 54 people and injuring 266 others.

• 2011 The United States military ends its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.

• 2017 Hurricane Maria makes landfall in Puerto Rico as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, resulting in 2,975 deaths, US$90billion in damage, and a major humanitarian crisis.

• 2018 At least 161 people die after a ferry capsizes close to the pier on Ukara Island in Lake Victoria, Tanzania.

• 2019 Roughly fourmillion people, mostly students, demonstrate across the world to address climate change. Sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg from Sweden leads the demonstration in New York City.

Births

Pre-1600

• 917 Kyunyeo, Korean poet (died 973)

• 1161 Emperor Takakura of Japan (died 1181)

• 1449 Philipp I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (died 1500)

• 1486 Arthur, Prince of Wales (died 1502)

• 1504 Philip III, Count of Nassau-Weilburg (died 1559)

• 1514 Philipp IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (died 1590)

• 1593 Gottfried Scheidt, German organist and composer (died 1661)

• 1599 Christian the Younger of Brunswick (died 1623)

1601–1900

• 1608 Jean-Jacques Olier, French priest and mystic, founder of the Society of Saint-Sulpice (died 1657)

• 1614 Martino Martini, Italian missionary, cartographer and historian (died 1661)

• 1685 Giuseppe Matteo Alberti, Italian violinist and composer (died 1751)

• 1685 Mateo de Toro Zambrano, 1st Count of La Conquista, President of the First Government Junta of Chile (died 1811)

• 1746 Maurice, Count de Benyovszky, Slovak-Hungarian explorer (died 1786)

• 1758 Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Haitian emperor (died 1806)

• 1778 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer (died 1852)

• 1800 Benjamin Franklin White, American singer and composer (died 1879)

• 1815 Richard Dry, Australian politician, 7th Premier of Tasmania (died 1869)

• 1819 Frederick Ellsworth Sickels, American inventor (died 1895)

• 1820 John F. Reynolds, American general (died 1863)

• 1831 Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (died 1917)

• 1833 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1918)

• 1842 James Dewar, Scottish-English chemist and physicist (died 1923)

• 1844 William H. Illingworth, English-American photographer (died 1893)

• 1847 Susanna Rubinstein, Austrian psychologist (died 1914)

• 1851 Henry Arthur Jones, English playwright and critic (died 1929)

• 1853 Chulalongkorn, Siamese king (died 1910)

• 1861 Herbert Putnam, American lawyer and publisher, 8th Librarian of Congress (died 1955)

• 1872 Maurice Gamelin, French general (died 1958)

• 1873 Sidney Olcott, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1949)

• 1873 Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (died 1944)

• 1875 Matthias Erzberger, German publicist and politician (died 1921)

• 1876 Carleton Ellis, American inventor and chemist (died 1941)

• 1878 Upton Sinclair, American novelist, critic, and essayist (died 1968)

• 1878 Francisco Lagos Cházaro, acting president of Mexico (died 1932)

• 1880 Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, musicologist and critic (died 1968)

• 1884 Maxwell Perkins, American editor (died 1947)

• 1885 Enrico Mizzi, Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Malta (died 1950)

• 1886 Charles Williams, English author, poet, and critic (died 1945)

• 1889 Oskar Kaplur, Estonian wrestler (died 1962)

• 1889 Charles Reidpath, American runner and general (died 1975)

• 1890 Linda Eenpalu, Estonian activist and politician (died 1967)

• 1891 Tomás Garrido Canabal, Mexican revolutionary (died 1943)

• 1893 Colin Fraser Barron, Scottish-Canadian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (died 1958)

• 1893 Hermann Lux, German footballer and manager (died 1962)

• 1895 Walter Dubislav, German logician and philosopher of science (died 1937)

• 1899 Leo Strauss, German-American political scientist, philosopher, and academic (died 1973)

1901–present

• 1902 Stevie Smith, English author and poet (died 1971)

• 1906 Jean Dréville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1997)

• 1906 Vera Faddeeva, Russian mathematician (died 1983)

• 1910 Dorothy Vaughan, American mathematician (died 2008)

• 1913 Sidney Dillon Ripley, American ornithologist and academic (died 2001)

• 1914 Kenneth More, English actor (died 1982)

• 1915 Malik Meraj Khalid, Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (died 2003)

• 1917 Red Auerbach, American basketball player and coach (died 2006)

• 1917 Olga Dahl, Swedish genealogist (died 2009)

• 1917 Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (died 1994)

• 1917 Clarice Taylor, American actress (died 2011)

• 1917 Obdulio Varela, Uruguayan footballer (died 1996)

• 1920 Jay Ward, American animator, producer, and screenwriter, founded Jay Ward Productions (died 1989)

• 1921 Chico Hamilton, American drummer, composer, and bandleader (died 2013)

• 1923 Maurice Sauvé, Canadian economist, academic, and politician (died 1992)

• 1924 Gogi Grant, American singer (died 2016)

• 1924 Hartini, wife of President Sukarno of Indonesia (died 2002)

• 1924 Albert Marre, American director, and producer (died 2012)

• 1924 Jackie Paris, American singer and guitarist (died 2004)

• 1925 James Bernard, English composer and screenwriter (died 2001)

• 1925 Ananda Mahidol, King Rama VIII of Thailand (died 1946)

• 1925 Nelly Moretto, Argentine composer (died 1978)

• 1926 Libero Liberati, Italian motorcycle racer (died 1962)

• 1927 Colette Bonheur, Canadian singer (died 1966)

• 1927 John Dankworth, English saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (died 2010)

• 1927 Red Mitchell, American bassist, composer, and poet (died 1992)

• 1927 Rachel Roberts, Welsh actress (died 1980)

• 1928 Alberto de Lacerda, Mozambican-Portuguese poet and radio host (died 2007)

• 1928 Olga Ferri, Argentinian dancer and choreographer (died 2012)

• 1928 Donald Hall, American poet, editor, and critic (died 2018)

• 1928 Juarez Teixeira, Brazilian footballer (died 2026)

• 1929 Anne Meara, American actress and playwright (died 2015)

• 1929 Vittorio Taviani, Italian film director and screenwriter (died 2018)

• 1929 Joe Temperley, Scottish saxophonist and clarinet player (died 2016)

• 1930 Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (died 1971)

• 1931 Cherd Songsri, Thai director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2006)

• 1933 Dennis Viollet, English footballer and manager (died 1999)

• 1934 Hamit Kaplan, Turkish World and Olympic champion sports wrestler (died 1976)

• 1934 Sophia Loren, Italian actress

• 1934 David Marquand, Welsh academic and politician (died 2024)

• 1934 Jeff Morris, American actor (died 2004)

• 1934 Rajinder Puri, Indian cartoonist, journalist, and activist (died 2015)

• 1935 David Pegg, English footballer (died 1958)

• 1935 Keith Roberts, English author and illustrator (died 2000)

• 1935 Jim Taylor, American football player and sportscaster (died 2018)

• 1936 Andrew Davies, Welsh author, screenwriter, and producer

• 1936 Salvador Reyes Monteón, Mexican footballer and manager (died 2012)

• 1937 Birgitta Dahl, Swedish politician, Swedish Minister for the Environment

• 1937 Garry Johnson, English general

• 1937 Monica Zetterlund, Swedish actress and singer (died 2005)

• 1938 Eric Gale, American guitarist and producer (died 1994)

• 1938 Jane Manning, English soprano and educator (died 2021)

• 1940 Tarō Asō, Japanese target shooter and politician, 92nd Prime Minister of Japan

• 1940 William Finley, American actor (died 2012)

• 1940 Anna Pavord, Welsh-English journalist and author

• 1941 Dale Chihuly, American sculptor and educator

• 1941 Sammy McMillan, Irish footballer

• 1942 Rose Francine Rogombé, Gabonese lawyer and politician, President of Gabon (died 2015)

• 1944 Paul Madeley, English footballer (died 2018)

• 1946 Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj, Spiritual Master, Head of Science of Spirituality

• 1946 Pete Coors, American businessman and politician

• 1946 Markandey Katju, Indian lawyer and judge

• 1947 Mia Martini, Italian singer (died 1995)

• 1947 Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, French journalist and author

• 1948 Rey Langit, Filipino journalist and radio host

• 1948 Victoria Mallory, American singer and actress (died 2014)

• 1948 George R. R. Martin, American novelist and short story writer

• 1948 Chuck Panozzo, American bass player

• 1948 John Panozzo, American drummer (died 1996)

• 1949 Mahesh Bhatt, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1949 Anthony Denison, American actor

• 1950 Loredana Bertè, Italian singer

• 1950 Matt Blair, American football player (died 2020)

• 1951 Guy Lafleur, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2022)

• 1951 Javier Marías, Spanish journalist, author, and academic (died 2022)

• 1951 Debbi Morgan, American actress

• 1951 Greg Valentine, American wrestler

• 1953 Rocky Mattioli, Italian-Australian boxer

• 1953 Steve Tom, American actor

• 1954 Anne McIntosh, Scottish lawyer and politician

• 1954 Henry Samueli, American businessman, co-founded Broadcom Corporation

• 1955 Betsy Brantley, American actress

• 1955 Johnny Kidd, English wrestler

• 1955 Haim Moshe, Israeli singer

• 1955 José Rivero, Spanish golfer

• 1956 Jennifer Tour Chayes, American mathematician and computer scientist

• 1956 Gary Cole, American actor

• 1956 Steve Coleman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader

• 1956 John Harle, English saxophonist, composer, conductor, and producer

• 1957 Alannah Currie, New Zealand singer-songwriter

• 1957 Michael Hurst, New Zealand actor and director

• 1957 Vladimir Tkatchenko, Russian basketball player

• 1958 Arn Anderson, American wrestler and trainer

• 1959 Joseph Alessi, American trombonist and educator

• 1959 Joanna Domańska, Polish pianist and educator

• 1959 Meral Okay, Turkish actress, producer, and screenwriter (died 2012)

• 1960 Lee Hall, English playwright and screenwriter

• 1960 Dave Hemingway, English singer-songwriter and drummer

• 1960 Deborah Roberts, American journalist

• 1961 Lisa Bloom, American lawyer and journalist

• 1961 Caroline Flint, English politician, Minister of State for Europe

• 1961 Erwin Koeman, Dutch retired football player and coach

• 1962 Jim Al-Khalili, Iraqi-English physicist, author, and academic

• 1963 Anil Dalpat, Pakistani cricketer

• 1964 Randy Bradbury, American bass player

• 1965 Poul-Erik Høyer Larsen, Danish badminton player

• 1966 Nuno Bettencourt, Portuguese singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1967 Roger Anderson, American wrestler

• 1967 Martin Harrison, American football player

• 1967 Kristen Johnston, American actress

• 1967 Gunnar Nelson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1967 Matthew Nelson, American singer-songwriter and bass player

• 1968 Ijaz Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer and coach

• 1968 Philippa Forrester, English television and radio presenter, producer and author

• 1968 Leah Pinsent, Canadian actress

• 1968 Darrell Russell, American race car driver (died 2004)

• 1968 Norah Vincent, American writer (died 2022)

• 1969 Patrick Pentland, Irish-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1969 Tim Rogers, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1969 Ben Shepherd, American musician and songwriter

• 1969 Richard Witschge, Dutch footballer and coach

• 1970 N'Bushe Wright, American actress and dancer

• 1971 Todd Blackadder, New Zealand rugby player and coach

• 1971 Masashi Hamauzu, Japanese pianist and composer

• 1971 Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer and manager

• 1971 Dominika Peczynski, Swedish singer and television host

• 1972 Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress

• 1972 Victor Ponta, Romanian jurist and politician, 63rd Prime Minister of Romania

• 1973 Ronald McKinnon, American football player

• 1973 Jo Pavey, English runner

• 1975 Asia Argento, Italian actress

• 1975 Moon Bloodgood, American actress

• 1975 Joel Gertner, American wrestling announcer

• 1975 Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian race car driver

• 1975 Jason Robinson, American saxophonist and composer

• 1976 Jon Bernthal, American actor

• 1976 Ainsley Earhardt, American political commentator

• 1977 The-Dream, American singer, songwriter, and producer

• 1977 Chris Mooney, American journalist and academic

• 1978 Jason Bay, Canadian-American baseball player

• 1978 Patrizio Buanne, Austrian-Italian singer-songwriter and producer

• 1978 Héctor Camacho Jr., Puerto Rican-American boxer

• 1978 Dante Hall, American football player

• 1978 Sarit Hadad, Israeli singer

• 1978 Scott Minto, Australian rugby league player

• 1978 Charlie Weber, American actor

• 1979 Crystle Stewart, American actress and beauty queen

• 1980 Yung Joc, American rapper

• 1980 Vladimir Karpets, Russian cyclist

• 1981 Feliciano López, Spanish tennis player

• 1981 David McMillan, American football player (died 2013)

• 1981 Ryan Tandy, Australian rugby league player (died 2014)

• 1981 Jordan Tata, American baseball player

• 1982 Jason Bacashihua, American ice hockey player

• 1982 Aaron Burkart, German race car driver

• 1982 Brian Fortuna, American dancer and choreographer

• 1982 Inna Osypenko-Radomska, Ukrainian-Azerbaijani sprint kayaker

• 1982 Sexy Star, Mexican wrestler

• 1982 Athanasios Tsigas, Greek footballer

• 1983 Sancho Lyttle, Vincentian-Spanish basketball player

• 1983 Freya Ross, Scottish runner

• 1983 Ángel Sánchez, Puerto Rican baseball player

• 1984 Brian Joubert, French figure skater

• 1985 Ian Desmond, American baseball player

• 1985 Mami Yamasaki, Japanese model and actress

• 1986 Hayato Fujita, Japanese wrestler

• 1986 Aldis Hodge, American actor

• 1986 İbrahim Kaş, Turkish footballer

• 1986 Jason Nightingale, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1986 A. J. Ramos, American baseball player

• 1987 Gain, South Korean singer

• 1987 Jack Lawless, American drummer

• 1987 Tito Tebaldi, Italian rugby player

• 1988 Sergei Bobrovsky, Russian ice hockey player

• 1988 Coby Fleener, American football player

• 1988 Khabib Nurmagomedov, Russian mixed martial artist

• 1988 Ayano Ōmoto, Japanese singer and dancer

• 1988 Ryan Simpkins, Australian rugby league player

• 1990 Ken Giles, American baseball player

• 1990 Carlos Hyde, American football player

• 1990 Donatas Motiejūnas, Lithuanian basketball player

• 1990 Phillip Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1990 John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1991 Isaac Cofie, Ghanaian footballer

• 1992 Michał Żyro, Polish footballer

• 1993 Kyle Anderson, American-Chinese basketball player

• 1993 Julian Draxler, German footballer

• 1994 – Ryan Hartman, American ice hockey player

• 1995 Laura Dekker, Dutch sailor

• 1995 Sammi Hanratty, American actress

• 1995 Rob Holding, English footballer

• 1996 Ioana Loredana Roșca, Romanian tennis player

• 1997 Itamar Einhorn, Israeli Olympic cyclist

• 1998 Trevon Diggs, American football player

• 2003 Thomas Matthew Crooks, American attempted assassin of Donald Trump (died 2024)

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 855 Gozbald, bishop of Würzburg

• 1085 Hermann II, Count Palatine of Lotharingia (born 1049)

• 1190 Adelog of Hildesheim, German bishop

• 1241 Conrad II of Salzwedel, German nobleman and bishop

• 1246 Michael of Chernigov (born 1185)

• 1266 Jan Prandota, Bishop of Kraków

• 1328 Ibn Taymiyyah, Syrian theologian and scholar (born 1263)

• 1384 Louis I, Duke of Anjou (born 1339)

• 1440 Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (born 1371)

• 1460 Gilles Binchois, Flemish composer (born 1400)

• 1492 Anne Neville, Countess of Warwick (born 1426)

• 1501 Agostino Barbarigo, Doge of Venice

• 1501 Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, stepson of Edward IV of England (born 1457)

• 1533 Veit Stoss, German sculptor (born c. 1447)

• 1537 Pavle Bakić, medieval Serb monarch; last Serb Despot

• 1565 Cipriano de Rore, Flemish composer and teacher (born 1515)

• 1586 Sir Anthony Babington, English Catholic conspirator (born 1561)

• 1586 Chidiock Tichborne, English conspirator and poet (born 1558)

• 1590 Lodovico Agostini, Italian priest, composer, and scholar (born 1534)

1601–1900

• 1625 Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (born 1555)

• 1627 Jan Gruter, Dutch scholar and critic (born 1560)

• 1639 Johannes Meursius, Dutch historian and scholar (born 1579)

• 1643 Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for England (born 1610)

• 1684 Kim Seok-ju, Korean scholar and politician (born 1634)

• 1740 Francis Scobell, English politician (born 1664)

• 1793 Fletcher Christian, English lieutenant and mutineer (born 1764)

• 1803 Robert Emmet, Irish republican (born 1780)

• 1815 Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist and scholar (born 1725)

• 1839 Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (born 1769)

• 1840 José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, Paraguayan lawyer and politician, Consul of Paraguay (born 1766)

• 1845 Matvei Gedenschtrom, Russian explorer and public servant (born 1780)

• 1852 Philander Chase, American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (born 1775)

• 1855 José Trinidad Reyes, Honduran priest and educator (born 1797)

• 1863 Jacob Grimm, German philologist and mythologist (born 1785)

• 1884 Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and author (born 1802)

• 1898 Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (born 1819)

1901–present

• 1906 Robert R. Hitt, American politician, 13th United States Assistant Secretary of State (born 1834)

• 1908 Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (born 1844)

• 1927 George Nichols, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1864)

• 1930 Gombojab Tsybikov, Russian anthropologist and explorer (born 1873)

• 1932 Francisco S. Carvajal, Mexican lawyer and politician, president 1914 (born 1870)

• 1933 Annie Besant, English theosophist and activist (born 1847)

• 1939 Paul Bruchési, Canadian archbishop (born 1855)

• 1942 Kārlis Ulmanis, Latvian prime minister and president (born 1877)

• 1945 Augusto Tasso Fragoso, Brazilian politician, President of Brazil (born 1869)

• 1945 William Seabrook, American occultist, journalist, and explorer (born 1884)

• 1945 Eduard Wirths, German physician (born 1909)

• 1947 Fiorello H. La Guardia, American lawyer and politician, 99th Mayor of New York City (born 1882)

• 1947 Jantina Tammes, Dutch biologist, geneticist, and academic (born 1871)

• 1957 Heino Kaski, Finnish pianist and composer (born 1885)

• 1957 Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer (born 1865)

• 1970 Alexandros Othonaios, Greek general and politician, 126h Prime Minister of Greece (born 1879)

• 1971 Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)

• 1971 James Westerfield, American actor (born 1913)

• 1972 Pierre-Henri Simon, French historian and author (born 1903)

• 1973 Jim Croce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1943)

• 1975 Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1887)

• 1979 Ludvík Svoboda, Czech general and politician, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (born 1895)

• 1984 Steve Goodman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1948)

• 1987 Michael Stewart, American playwright and composer (born 1924)

• 1993 Erich Hartmann, German soldier and pilot (born 1922)

• 1994 Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean physician, academic, and diplomat (born 1924)

• 1994 Jule Styne, American composer (born 1905)

• 1996 Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish mathematician and academic (born 1913)

• 1996 Reuben Kamanga, Zambian politician, 1st Vice-President of Zambia (born 1929)

• 1996 Paul Weston, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1912)

• 1999 Robert Lebel, Canadian businessman (born 1905)

• 2000 Gherman Titov, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (born 1935)

• 2002 Sergei Bodrov Jr., Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1971)

• 2003 Simon Muzenda, Zimbabwean politician, 1st Vice-President of Zimbabwe (born 1922)

• 2003 Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, Welsh lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1941)

• 2004 Brian Clough, English footballer and manager (born 1935)

• 2004 Townsend Hoopes, American soldier and historian (born 1922)

• 2005 Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian human rights activist, Holocaust survivor (born 1908)

• 2006 Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (born 1932)

• 2006 Sven Nykvist, Swedish director, producer, and cinematographer (born 1922)

• 2006 John W. Peterson, American pilot and songwriter (born 1921)

• 2007 Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (born 1928)

• 2010 Leonard Skinner, American soldier and educator (born 1933)

• 2011 Oscar Handlin, American historian and author (born 1915)

• 2011 Burhanuddin Rabbani, Afghan academic and politician, 10th President of Afghanistan (born 1940)

• 2012 Fortunato Baldelli, Italian cardinal (born 1935)

• 2012 Richard H. Cracroft, American author and academic (born 1936)

• 2012 Tereska Torrès, French soldier and author (born 1920)

• 2013 James B. Vaught, American general (born 1926)

• 2013 Gilles Verlant, Belgian journalist and critic (born 1957)

• 2014 Anatoly Berezovoy, Russian colonel, pilot, and cosmonaut (born 1942)

• 2014 Polly Bergen, American actress and singer (born 1930)

• 2014 Takako Doi, Japanese scholar and politician (born 1928)

• 2014 George Sluizer, French-Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1932)

• 2015 Mario Caiano, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1933)

• 2015 Jagmohan Dalmiya, Indian businessman (born 1940)

• 2015 Jack Larson, American actor (born 1928)

• 2016 Curtis Hanson, American film director and screenwriter (born 1945)

• 2016 Peter Leo Gerety, American bishop (born 1912)

• 2023- Maddy Cusack, English football player (born 1995)

• 2024 Ibrahim Aqil, Hezbollah militant (born 1962)

• 2024 Kathryn Crosby, American actress and singer (born 1933)

• 2024 Daniel J. Evans, American politician, 16th Governor of Washington (born 1925)

• 2024 Sayuri, Japanese musician (born 1996)

• 2024 Cleo Sylvestre, English actress (born 1945)

• 2024 – Eduardo Xol, American designer and author (born 1966)

• 2025 Matt Beard, English football manager (born 1978)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Agapitus (Western Christianity)

• Eustace (Western Christianity)

• Evilasius

• Fausta of Cyzicus

• Glycerius of Milan

• Jean-Charles Cornay (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)

• John Coleridge Patteson (commemoration, Anglicanism)

• José Maria de Yermo y Parres

• Korean Martyrs, including Andrew Kim Taegon and Laurent-Marie-Joseph Imbert

• Theodore, Philippa and companions

• Vincent Madelgarius (Maelceadar)

• September 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Constitution Day (Nepal)

• Independence Day of South Ossetia (not fully recognized)

• National Youth Day (Thailand)

• Oil Workers' Day (Azerbaijan)

• Universal Children's Day (Germany)

References

External links